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Skills And Staffing: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines the skills and staffing for Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on a service management and automation strategy. This report is...

Road Map: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their road map of service management and automation processes (SMA) using Forrester's...

The service desk is your IT organization's first line of response to business user incidents and requests. Because these interactions shape your business' perception of IT, it's critical to not just...
During a self-evaluation, the Orrick service desk team realized a shortcoming around knowledge management. The issues ranged from out-of-date information and lack of common terminology to...
How Novell Transformed Its Global Technical Support Operations
In the services industry, the ultimate goal is to increase customer satisfaction while lowering support costs with improved productivity. Unfortunately, introducing new tools for productivity gains...
An Overview Of The Modern Service Desk And Other Technologies
The service desk market generated more than $1.3 billion in 2008 and is expected to grow at about 10%. This market segment has experienced very little innovation in the past few years. The goals of...

A Best Practice Introduced To The IT Operations And Service Desk Teams
As IT organizations deepen their maturity in service management, they progress from a simple ticketing system to an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process-oriented service desk with self-service...
Some IT organizations are confident that they can weather the storm of our current economic situation. Others believe they can maintain their current staffing level, and some are saying that they can...
Oft-Overlooked Group Is Key To Business Continuity
The designation of the H1N1 flu virus as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) should, once again, prompt organizations to revisit their business continuity planning processes. However,...